The maps below illustrate, first, the general location of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; second, the location of Seaton Sluice relative to Newcastle (courtesy UK Multimap Server); and, third, the specific locations depicted in the photo).

General Location of Newcastle.

Location of Newcastle in Relation to Other English Cities.

David describes the photo (see enlarged portion below for details): "The searchlight position was on the flat ground atop the rocky outcrop at the left of the photo near the isolated building on the cliff edge, just south (above on the photo) of the winding path leading to the beach. The bay accessible by the winding path is Collywell Bay, where I live. The lighthouse is St. Mary's (Whitley Bay). Under the searchlight site is a World War I gun complex (you can see the circular pattern of the exposed turret position still on the grass). In 1944, the underground complex was visible and quite accessible, but now it has all been filled in. The gun located here was a twin-barrel 12-inch naval gun removed from the HMS Illustrious (the emplacement was designated 'Tyne Turret'). With a range of 12 miles, it was situated on land as to defend the approaches to the mouth of the Tyne from German attack. (Launched in 1896, the third Illustrious, a battleship with 12- and 6-inch guns, was already obsolete in 1914. Stripped of her armament, she spent most of the war as an ammunition store ship and was scrapped in 1920.) Any of the 225th boys who were here would obviously remember the underground structure and the views of Whitley Bay from the site."

Zooming in on Site TT122. Crag Point dominatesthe photograph, jutting into Collywell Bay.

The most notorious members of this family were the practical joking brothers Lord Delaval and Sir Francis Blake Delaval, who lived here in the 1700s. Their
pranks included placing trapdoors under the beds of house guests who haplessly dropped through the floor into huge tanks of water in the middle of the night. On one other
occasion after retiring for the evening, unfortunate guests found themselves exposed to each other after undressing and dewigging in their bedrooms. The Delavals had fitted
sliding walls to the rooms, which were pulled up into the ceiling by means of a pulley.